Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Anderson

As an alternative I'd like to propose that we consider an ordinance that states specifically how many car spaces per residential spot. You should base that upon some mathematical formula of the living area, bedroom area or occupancy load of the house.

Jim Lushine

The bottom line: If you've got an area that has a hurricane warning, you should prepare regardless.

David Gallop

The Bulldogs have made significant inroads in this area with the help from the majority of fans,

Don Cox

The bottom line is we're still going to have people probably swim outside the designated area and do what they want to do in these public-type lakes, ... Short of having somebody there 24/7 with some real policing power, there's only so much we can do.

Richard Flanagan

'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia.

Carrie Knox

The break was an inch from his hip joint, and Dr. (David) Carlton didn't think there was enough bone in the area to operate without taking out the ball and socket joint. But he was able to put a screw in it.

John Graddy

The boat came to evacuate them and they couldn't get them all on, so the aunt went with the two nephews and we actually transported those three from the staging area at Interstate 10 to Baton Rouge, LSU campus.

Norman Solomon

The boast that the United States is now the world's only superpower has a grim undertow in the area of human rights; no one can tell Washington what to do or not do, no matter how egregious its cruelties.

John Roach

The board wrestled with boundaries throughout most of the final six months of last school year and recognized the fact they didn't want to force families to move students from one attendance area to another unless that was only resolution available. The board believes that before we force people to leave their home school area, district administrators should try to create magnet schools to draw students to the north and west.

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Jim Tressel

Bobby Carpenter makes things happen. He's a nightmare for those tackles when he's rushing. He's got tremendous range as a linebacker and covers so much ground. I don't see him get blocked very often. He makes plays.

Jimmy White

This woman was chronically sick and her family called us for help during the storm, but we couldn't put a vehicle on the roads, ... After the winds died down, there was no way to get to her because Highway 15 where she lived was blocked by fallen trees.

Tony Dungy

You have to learn offensive blocking schemes and especially when rushing the passer you get blocked differently, ... Larry had to call some (assignments) for us on Sunday with Corey not as familiar with what we're doing. Montae has always done that the last two years. Larry did a good job of getting us into some of the right things.

Chris Ellis

Those possessions we contested (shots), everybody blocked out and that led to our run. When you stop a team and they're taking contested jumpers, that frustrates them into making other decisions.

Brian Satterfield

We talked about forcing them (Mooresville) to have to make decisions on the offensive end of the floor. We couldn't score early on to set up our press, but eventually we came up with some steals and blocked some shots and that led to some easy baskets for us in transition.

Bat for Lashes

The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.

Nick Harmer

People were maybe a little worried. We blocked that all out as much as we could and just said, we need to make a record, make it great, put it out and get on the road. I think just by us doing that and making the record we did, there was kind of a collective sigh.

Rock Cartwright

The Eagles blocked a field goal and ran it back,

Joe Blanton

Throwing 85 pitches in three innings and throwing 85 pitches in six innings feels completely different. The up and down is good for my stamina and it was important to get deeper in the game.

Aleksandar Hemon

Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?

Ryan Henry

We want to be able to reach out faster, reach out deeper and reach out with more impact.

Mariska Hargitay

Every day is deeper and richer and more soulful.

Aaron Huey

Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

Wayne Norris

Lenders are taking a deeper look into things ... maybe than they were eight months ago.

Zhai Kun

Lee's visit can be regarded as a tour for deeper political ties.

Maurice Luque

She tried to get out but the more she tried to get out, the deeper she sank.

Robert Burton

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Courtney McInnis

That play was big. We were thinking of just getting to the half and making adjustments. I thought they would run it out, but Waters made a great play. He picked it up and ran with it instead of falling on it.

Phil Boyer

The statistics don't support planes falling out of the sky.

Ben Macintyre

Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.

Brad Paisley

If you fall in love with somebody, then you're not even worried about your bills. Love can take your mind off of anything.

Alain de Botton

If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?

Janet Street-Porter

I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.

Brenda Jackson

Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.

Bonnie McKee

I just want to give people something to dance to, and something to cry to, and laugh to and fall in love to.

Ben Kingsley

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Tim Anderson

Anything that moves it forward is a good thing, and this looks like it's moving forward.

Ken Goldstein

The significant increase in the leading indicators during the last six months, tempered only by the financially related pause in February, points to forward momentum in this expansion.

Michael Taylor

The temperament is completely different when you walk in the locker room. You look forward to seeing guys. You look forward to getting out there with the guys on the field. After the game, you look forward to seeing the guys too.

Mike Troy

The team?s excited. They know that they won games in states last year and are looking forward to the opportunity to repeat that.

Greg Oveson

The team is getting pumped up and is looking forward to the game.

Liu Jian

The talks will take the resolution process forward and lay a foundation for the future.

Simon Cowell

The Super Bowl's a good analogy. You've got to make people look forward to it once a year.

Jason Vargas

I've never been in a game of this magnitude. I'm looking forward to it.

Charles Thompson

The splash front page is excellent. Viewers know at a glance that a major story is being highlighted even before they start to read. Please continue.

Cristobal Huet

The team is playing real well in front of me. It was our physical play and the PK (penalty kill) was the success tonight. It was a team win.

Sean Hayes

The thing about producing is that the pressure is off of being in front of the camera, and being critiqued and judged in that way, but there are other pressures producing.

LaMont Jordan

I've learned that it's one thing for a young player to have somebody like that in front of him. It's another thing for you to have the maturity to sit back and actually learn and not be selfish. I had it right away, because I understood my situation.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

I've been a National Front member since I was 17, and active supporter for a long time.

John Krasinski

I've always loved those movies where somebody really wants something, and then the thing they want is right in front of them.

Adam Pascal

I've become a little disillusioned with what's happening in the theatrejust in the material that's been offered to me. I wish there was material that I responded to more. I can't make a living doing theatre. But I can't wait to come back. I'm doing a lot of film auditioning. I'm trying to make a transition into film. I'd like to see if I could have a little success in front of the camera.

Justin Long

I waited tables for about a year; I was terrible at it, ... The only thing that I could have done to be a worse waiter would be to actually have like peed in front of people, like on them while they were trying to eat. It was at that level.

Elmore Leonard

The movie, when I saw it in New York, I said, 'This is the second-worst movie ever made,' ... And the woman in front of me said to her husband, or her date, 'This is the worst movie I've ever seen .' And the three of us got up and left.

Author unknown

I always take life with a grain of salt, ...plus a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila.

Jeff Flake

We've got to take some of these definitions with a huge grain of salt.

Craig Venter

It takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef, 15 liters of water to get one kilogram of beef, and those cows produce a lot of methane. Why not get rid of the cows?

Mike Palmerino

It's looking more and more like there is going to be some acreage down there that is not going to be harvested for grain in Texas and Oklahoma.

Patrick Michaels

This movie takes a grain of truth and turns into a mountain of apocalypse.

Gregg Laskoski

We need to take it with a grain of salt when it comes to speculation of what may happen in the future.

Teresa Follmer

Try and go with the grain of the wood if we can.

Richard McLaren

As a spy, under the laws of war, and his house being designated a military target, we are perfectly under international law in our right to do this,

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Bible Bible

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Vince Young

The takeaways are the big thing. You've got to protect the ball.

Dave Allison

That's huge. We didn't sit back and protect the lead, we went after it in the third period.

Aslan Maskhadov

to protect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Michelle Moran

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Bob Rue

I got to protect my eggs. I've got food, I've got toys, I'm having the time of my life.

Evangelos Venizelos

Protect those who protect you.

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

Herman Edwards

We have to protect the quarterback. We haven't done that and we need to do that.

Matt Foy

It was unbelievable. Everything just seemed to click. It seems like everything I did went right.

Aaron Miles

It was a long possession. It seemed like 20 seconds.

Fred Williams

I didn't see any survivalists; it seemed to be more for profit.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

William Shakespeare

And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!

James Lee Burke

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.

Christopher Isherwood

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

Francis Bacon

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Jon Yackmack

He can find the back of the net. That is important. I would take him any day. I would take him in the slot anytime. You give him a little time, and he will make you pay.

Warren Buffett

Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

Warren Buffett

Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

Yann Martel

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

Joseph Epstein

I know how deeply slothful I am.

Barbara Sher

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Chuck Eddy

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Thomas S. Monson

Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you. . .for beginners are many, but finishers few.

Tina St. John

Holy Moses on a pogo stick!!

Steffi Graf

I am a person who sticks to her word.

Stephen Covey

When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

Steven Moffat

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

Randy Quaid

If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Something of calumny always sticks.

Miley Cyrus

I try to not work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday nights, I try to chill out a little bit. I call it Sunday Funday.

Catherine McCormack

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

Craig Finn

The Catholic influence just comes from being raised Catholic, going to church every Sunday, being confirmed, going to church on holy days. So it's coming from where I am. It serves the purpose of having people who have a base or foundation where they know what's right.

Brian Clough

You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

Brit Hume

People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.

Alexander Pope

E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.

Anthony Quinn

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating.

Reese Witherspoon

You can learn a lot about yourself with what youre doing and who youre with on a sunday.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.